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Snoopr Version 2 Adds a Social Network to Help You Find Deals

Snoopr is a bookmarking tool that lets you add items for deals on products across the web and in physical locations. The site's take on helping you save money while shopping online is to leverage the power of the community to help you find the deals. The site has launched its second version of Snoopr today, with a few new features.

The trophy case is interesting because it displays items that users have purchased, and tracks the amount of money that user has saved as a result of getting a good deal. There's also more details included on the deal page, which is useful for those that would like to use the site as a search tool: users that have purchased the items, pertinent coupons, recommendation options and other related deals from throughout the site are all smart features that have been included in the new details portion of Snoopr.

The most important addition to Snoopr is the addition of friends on Snoopr was a smart move, because a community effort such as this lends itself to the potential of leaders to emerge, and those leaders are the people that other users will want to follow and keep track of in order to take advantage of the site.

This inclusion of more social tools also lets Snoopr build on its potential as a products reviews site, as well as a tool for search and discovery, and recommendations. In a flurry of social shopping sites and restricted networks handling a good portion of this sector of the market, will Snoopr's new social network be able to leverage enough users to gain a significant amount of market share?

I think some time line or time sensitive options for Snoopr would help with the concept of organizing aggregated data coming from several users over a long period of time. Additionally, some browser add-ons for submitting deals and alerts for when you come across a site where a deal is present, like RetailMeNot, will make Snoopr a more practical tool for easy adoption with a certain segment of online shoppers as well.

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